No computers
It seems like spring is finally arriving in Milwaukee, and that means I’ll be getting away from the computer more often and outside on the bike. I usually stay off the streets and ride the Oak Leaf Trail from Bay View to South Milwaukee. Even though I’ve ridden the path many times, I always find new things along the way. I even stopped at a Realtor’s open house once and looked inside people’s closets.
Taking a tip from Daniel Menche, sometimes I ride with no headphones on and just listen to the sound of the wind, my huffing and puffing, the lake, the birds and other sounds of nature. It’s great to get up early on a Saturday and hit the trail for a few hours. Surprisingly, I don’t feel tired when I get home, but actually more awake and ready to get some things done, which is much more than I can say for all of winter.
Posted in News
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Elements of Rhythmanalysis: An Introduction to the Understanding of Rhythms
By Henri Lefebvre
Translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore
Typeset by Kenneth Burnley
With analysis by Jarrod Fowler
Bold things from Continuum’s 2004 edition:
I – The Critique of the Thing
5. concept
6. mechanical – organic – repetition – measure – prime numbers – our – rhythms – products
7. left – produces – event
8. measure – Rhythm – quantitative
9. qualitative – Rational – natural – analytic – and
10. measure – relative – measure – frequency – measure frequencies – almost objects – almost
11. duel – dialogue – two – dialectic – three – triadic
12. world – dialectical – three – ‘melody-harmony-rhythm’
13. demonstrate – think – anti
14. proved – rhythm – immeasurable – rhythm
15. rhythm
16. rhythm – Polyrhythmia analyses itself – What is it to think? – rhythms
17. perspective – conception – sensible – no things – rhythms – present – present – presence – secret – no secrets – rhythm – secret – public
18. Secret rhythms – Public – rhythms – Fictional rhythms – Dominating-dominated rhythms – agent – rhythms
II – The Rhythmanalyst: A Previsionary Portrait
19.
20. perfect – garland – metastable
21. present – concrete
22. whole – representations – present – presence – is
23. rhythms – present – magic – images – things – present – present – presence – poet
24. presence
25.
26. work of art – product – thing – is
III – Seen from the Window
27. grasped
28.
29.
30. cyclical – alternating
31. polyrhythmically – present
32. meanings – produced
33.
34. people
35.
36. his time
37.
IV – Dressage
38. natural – natural
39. repetition
40. determines the majority of rhythms
41. rhythms
42. rhythms
43. dressage – rhythms
44.
45.
V – The Media Day
46.
47. here – product
48. immediate – presence – dialogue
49. not of communication
50. the mediatised everyday – simultaneously
VI – The Manipulations of Time
51. Capital and life (the living)
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56.
VII – Music and Rhythms
57. aesthetic
58. oppositions – Oppositions – The low and the high. – Vivace-adagios. – beat – Verticality-horizontality. – Tied-staccato. – Logogenic and pathogenic. – expression-signification
59. Sacred-profane. – dances
60. concrete – sound – tone – triadic – Binary
61. dominates – sung – metric – measure – Dionysiac
62.
63. measurement – writing – time – chord
64. also – musical time – body
65. energy – measure
66. real – ethical – catharsis – values
VIII – Conclusions (Résumé)
67. body – polyrhythmic – eurhythmic – isorhythmia – polyrhythmia – Eurhythmia – through rhythms
68. isorhythmia – eurhythmia – preventative
69. into use.